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H. 1-]. LEEM AN. CARPET PASTENER.

No. 447,959. Patented Mar. 10,1891.

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HORACE E. LEEMAN, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HARRY A. MORTON, OF SAME PLACE.

CARPET-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447.959, dated March 10, 1891.

Application filed July 21, 1890- Serial No. 359,470. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HORACE E. LEEMAN, of Lynn, in the county of Essex andState of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Carpet-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide improved means whereby a carpet may be fastened in place on a floor in such manner that it can be easily and quickly removed without the removal of the fastening devices and without liability of tearing or injuring the carpet; and to this end the invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figures 1 and 2 represent views of the blanks from which the main portion of one of my improved fasteners is made. Fig. 3 represents a top View of the piece which constitutes the guard in the device made from the blank shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 represents a top view of the complete device made of said blank and having the guard shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 represents a side elevation of the device shown in Fig. 4, a part of Fig. 5 beinga section on line 5 5, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents a View similar to Fig. 5, showing the guard raised. Fig. 7 represents a perspective and Fig. 8 a side View of the device shown in the preceding figures engaged with a carpet.

The same letters and numerals of reference indicate the same parts in all of the figures.

In carrying out myinvention I provide for all parts of a carpet excepting those which extend across doorways a tack or fastening device a, which is adapted to be permanently attached to the floor and is made without a head or enlargement at its upper end, so that the carpet which it penetrates can be pulled off from the tack without removing the latter from the floor and without tearing the carpet.

The tack a is shown in Figs. 1 to 8, inclusive, as formed on and projecting upwardly from a sheet-metal plate b, which is secured to the fioor bya nail or other fastening device 0, the tack a being preferably an integral part of the blank of which the plate I) is made, as

shown in Fig. 1, and bent upwardlyfrom said blank, as shown in Figs. 2, 5, and 6.

' The carpet is engaged wit-h said tack by being forced down onto the same, as indicated in Fig. 8, after the tack has been attached to the fioor, a pivoted guard d being employed to prevent the carpet from being raised from the tack, and also to protect the point of the tack. Said guard, as shown in Figs. 1 to 8, inclusive, is a plate connected by a hinge-joint at e to the upwardly-turned end of the sheetmetal plate I) opposite the end on which the tack C6 is formed. Said upwardly-turned end is divided into three cars 2 2 3, the ear 3 being bentto form a spring and passed through a slot 4, cut in the guard d. The guard has a bent end 6, which bears against the ears 2 2, and when the guard is depressed. as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, bends the ear 3 away from the ears 2 2 and causes said ears to cooperate in holding the guard somewhat firmly in the position last described, so that the guard cannot be raised unless sufficient force is used to overcome the grasp which the ears 2 2 and 3 exert on the end 6 and one edge of the slot l of the guard.

I am aware that a carpet-fastener comprising. a plate adapted to be attached to the floor, and provided with an upwardly-projecting prong or tack adapted to enter the carpet, and with a hinged guard-plate adapted to coverthe pointof the tack, is not new. Hence I do not claim, broadly, a carpet-fastener embodying said features. Myimproved device, however, shown in Figs. 1 to 8, inclusive, differs from any other of which I am aware in that it is composed entirely of two pieces of sheet metal, said pieces comprising the baseplate, the guard-plate, the hinge-joint that connects said guard-plate to the base-plate, and the spring device that retains the guard plate yieldingly in its two positions, this con struction being simpler, cheaper, and more compact than any other known to me.

I claim- 1. The improved carpetsecuring device hereinbefore described, consistingof the sheetmetal plate b, having an upwardly-projecting prong at or near one end, and divided at its other end to form a series of elastic ears,which are bent upwardly siibstantiaily at right am gles to the body of the plate, said plate and ears being formed in a single piece, and the sheet-metal guard-plate engaged at one end with said elastic ears to form a yielding hingejoint, which is-adapted to retain the guardplate either in a raised or in a depressed position, said plate being formed to cover the point of the tack when depressed, as set forth.

2. The improved carpet-securingdevice, consisting of the sheet-metal plate I), having the upwardly-projecting prong or tack at or near one end and divided at its other end to form the elastic ears 2 2 and 3, bent upwardly from the plane of the body of the plate, said plate, tack, and ears being made in a single piece, and the sheet-metal guard-plate (1, having the bent end 6 and aslotadjoining said bent end, said slot being formed to receive the ofiset .end of one (it the elastic ears, which bears against the outer edge of the slot, while the bent end 6 is forined to bear at its outef end on another of said. ears, the torni of the bent end being such that when the guard-plate is being moved from its raised to its depressed position the ear bearing on the edge of the slot is pressed away from the other ears, the pressure of said ears tending to hold the guard-plate both in its raised and in its depressed position, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 17th day of July, A. D. 1890.

HORACE E. LEEMAN.

Witnesses:

O. F. BROWN, A. A. DAVIS. 

